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Ever wondered what I actually sound like? Well now you can experience the male version of me in the form of the latest video from HorologyBiology! Top 10 Reasons Wearing Watches Elevates Your Sexy Game Words taken from one of our previous TER articles, What Makes Watch People Just So Damn Sexy?, and put into… Continue reading The Escapement Room on YouTube!
Kaysia: So I recently wrote elsewhere about various watches I have been eyeing for some time and finally decided to admit that I'm just never going to actually reach the point of clicking the 'Buy it now' button. One watch I mentioned that I am very torn about is this lovely Tara vintage skin diver.… Continue reading Round Table #6: Watches sent to torment us…
Has anyone else noticed how difficult trolling on watch forums has become? Gone are the days when trolls could tell people to 'save up for a proper watch', casually remark that homages are fake watches for fake people, or drop comments that Tudor owners secretly wished they could get a Rolex. Try that most places… Continue reading The Watch-Lovers Guide to Being an Internet Troll: The Subtle Art of Punching Up.
I lurked for a few years before I ever made my first comment on a watch forum. I wasn’t sure that, even anonymously, I wanted to be outed as a watch nerd. Now I comment all of the time and even include enough biographical information that you could find me and punch me in the… Continue reading The mask slips
This weekend was finally time to celebrate getting to the end of two crazy weeks at work. It's always the case that when extra shifts need covering I'll generally be eager to volunteer, thinking "Ooo... imagine the watches I could buy with the extra cash!" but no watch has been worth the multiple 12 hour… Continue reading Dear diary: What internet dating and sexy lingerie taught me about watch collecting.
The concept of the wristwatch is older than the concept of the weekend. Abraham-Louis Breguet probably made the first wristwatch for the Queen of Naples in 1810. Sixty-nine years later, in 1879, the British magazine Notes and Queries first used the term “week-end” to describe the comings and goings of workers. (The weekend is only… Continue reading Everybody’s working for the weekend…
As a lady, if you choose to don a man's watch you are following in the footsteps of many stylish and rebellious women who have come before you. For most of modern history, a woman wearing men's apparel has been a defiant act. During the world wars, when women took on male roles they also… Continue reading Advice for women: Why you should steal men’s watches.
I had a question of involving watch manners recently, or maybe it was watch etiquette, either way, it was a conundrum. Sometimes when I am hunting some vintage brand or model, I will send a picture of it to Kaysia or Chris to bounce it off of them. Sometimes, they do that to me. Occasionally,… Continue reading What can Emily Post tell us about watches?
Greg: Why don’t I throw out another Round Table discussion: Can a watch brand be truly “underrated”? On our favorite forum last week two different posts alluded to Longines being an “underrated” brand. My head just about exploded. Longines has been one of the Ur-Swiss fine watch makers for nearly 150 years. Important people wore… Continue reading Round Table No. 5, Now with Four, an underrated discussion
I have had to keep off social media for the most part this week because my general mood has been.... ... and I don't want to get banned for snapping at some poor unsuspecting watch enthusiast (plus I'd feel awful later).This week has been an absolute disaster.We started with 3 doctors already off work and… Continue reading What one shitty day taught me about watch collecting. A.K.A. How watch collecting could help you save a life.
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